Dr Nanna Holmgaard List PhD

Dr Nanna Holmgaard List

School of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry

Contact details

Email
n.h.list@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@ListNanna
Address
School of Chemistry
Molecular Sciences Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Nanna H. List is an Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry. Her research is focused on mapping the intricate electron–nuclear interplay that dictates photoinduced spin changes, energy and charge flow, and how it can be manipulated to enable tailored design of light-induced processes in molecules and molecular materials. Driven by this aim, Nanna’s group develops and applies theoretical models that allow first principles exploration of these questions in chemically relevant systems. The theoretical endeavours are often pursued in collaboration with leading experimental groups in the field.   

For further details, please visit the group website.

Qualifications

Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry:

  • PhD in theoretical and computational chemistry 2016, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • MSc of honours in Interdisciplinary Science Studies, 2013, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • BSc in Chemistry, 2010, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Biography

Nanna was awarded a PhD degree in theoretical and computational chemistry from University of Southern Denmark in 2016. Her graduate work focused on the development and application of polarizable embedding models within the framework of quantum-mechanical response theory to spectroscopic observables of biomolecular systems. Her contributions were recognized with several awards, including best PhD thesis 2016 by the Danish National Academy of Natural Sciences and an EliteForsk PhD travel prize from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

Following her PhD, Nanna received two individual postdoctoral fellow grants to pursue independent research. From 2017-2021, she pursued research in the Martínez lab at Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where her research focused on theory for ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited molecular systems.

In September 2021, Nanna started her independent group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Since November 2024, she joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham as an Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry.

Awards, honours and fellowships

  • Villum Foundation postdoctoral fellowship (2017-2019)
  • Carlsberg postdoctoral fellowship (2016-2017)
  • Best PhD thesis 2016, Danish National Academy of Natural Sciences
  • EliteForsk PhD travel grant 2015, Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
Zonta Denmark PhD Award 2013, Zonta Denmark

Postgraduate supervision

We are always looking to work with highly motivated and talented MSci and graduate students. Specific funded opportunities will be advertised on the group webpage and on the job website when available.

  • Theoretical and computational chemistry
  • Excited-state dynamics
  • Electronic spin-dependent nonadiabatic dynamics
  • Photoactive proteins

If you are interested in research in any of these directions, please reach out to Nanna via the contact details above.

Publications

 N. H. List,C. M. Jones, T. J. Martínez. Chemical Control of Excited-State Reactivity of the Anionic Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore (2024), Commun. Chem. 7:25.

E. Champenois, N. H. List, M. Ware, M. Britton, P. H. Bucksbaum, X. Cheng, M. Centurion, J. P. Cryan, R. Forbes, I. Gabalski, K. Hegazy, M. C. Hoffmann, A. J. Howard, F. Ji, M.-F. Lin. J. P. Nunes, X. Shen, J. Yang, X. Wang, T. J. Martínez, T. J. A. Wolf. (2023) Femtosecond Electronic and Hydrogen Structural Dynamics in Ammonia Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131:143001.

P. Chakraborty, R. C. Couto, N. H. List. (2023). Deciphering Methylation Effects on S2(pp*) Internal Conversion of the Simplest Linear a,b-Unsaturated Carbonyl. J. Phys. Chem. A 127:5360

M. v. Horn, T. Saue, N. H. List. (2022). Probing Chirality across the Electromagnetic Spectrum with the Full Semi-Classical Light–Matter Interaction. J. Chem. Phys. 156:054113.